Assessment of Poor Home Management Practice of Diarrhea and Associated Factors among Caregivers of Under-Five Years Children in Urban and Rural Residents of Doba Woreda, Ethiopia: Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

Table 6

An association between residence and selected health related factors among caregivers of under-five children’s Doba woreda, Oromia, Ethiopia.

Variables	Rural	Urban	COR (95% CI)	P value
Home management practice
Good	48	72	0.212(0.14, 0.33)	0.001
Poor	286	91	1.0
Level of knowledge
Poor	230	35	6.75(4.43, 10.03)	0.001
Good	145	149	1.0
Two week history of diarrhea
No	275	158	0.46(0.29,0.75)	0.002
Yes	97	26	1.0
Educational status
No/Informal education	222	25	9.2(5.7,14.7)	0.001
Formal education	153	159	1.0
Household size
Less than five	185	131	0.39(0.27,0.58)	0.001
Greater or equal to five	190	53	1.0
Place of delivery
Home	185	37	3.96(2.9,5.9)	0.001
Health facility	188	147	1.0
Awareness on SSS?
No	287	99	2.8(1.9, 4.1)	0.00
Yes	88	85	1.0
Awareness on yogurt?
No	294	141	1.1(0.7, 1.68)	0.64
Yes	81	43	1.0
Awareness on Zinc?
No	234	32	7.8(5.1, 12)	0.01
Yes	141	152	1.0

COR= Crude odds ratio, CI= confidence Interval, “1.0” indicates reference group, =can’t read and write and informal education, = primary, secondary, tertiary, SSS “salt sugar solution”